Sydney Walling
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Sir Sydney Walling was an Antigua
n cricket
er who played for Antigua and Barbuda
during the 1930’s and 1940’s.
Despite playing for his national team he failed to ever make it onto the West Indies team. Several commentators commented on this saying that it was due to the fact he lived on a smaller island and that the island did not play first-class cricket
at the time.
In 2006 Walling was honoured when a section of the roadway in the capital was renamed the “Sydney Walling Highway”.
Walling died at the age of 102 in Antigua on 8 October 2009. Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer
paid tribute to Walling after his death.
Antigua
Antigua , also known as Waladli, is an island in the West Indies, in the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean region, the main island of the country of Antigua and Barbuda. Antigua means "ancient" in Spanish and was named by Christopher Columbus after an icon in Seville Cathedral, Santa Maria de la...
n cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er who played for Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda is a twin-island nation lying between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It consists of two major inhabited islands, Antigua and Barbuda, and a number of smaller islands...
during the 1930’s and 1940’s.
Despite playing for his national team he failed to ever make it onto the West Indies team. Several commentators commented on this saying that it was due to the fact he lived on a smaller island and that the island did not play first-class cricket
First-class cricket
First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...
at the time.
In 2006 Walling was honoured when a section of the roadway in the capital was renamed the “Sydney Walling Highway”.
Walling died at the age of 102 in Antigua on 8 October 2009. Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer
Baldwin Spencer
Winston Baldwin Spencer is the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda. He has been Prime Minister since March 24, 2004, when his party, the United Progressive Party , which he had led as the opposition party for several years, won a parliamentary election...
paid tribute to Walling after his death.